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Traditional Music Quotes

When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play. Doc Watson
Tom Chapin quote: "Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition."
Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition. Tom Chapin
First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality. Pierre Schaeffer
Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts. Evelyn Glennie
When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs! Tom Wopat
Compay Segundo quote: "The music that I play and that I like is traditional music,..."
The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age. Compay Segundo
Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon. Compay Segundo
Colin Farrell quote: "My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music,..."
My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community. Colin Farrell
So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old. Robert Morris
Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience. Evelyn Glennie
I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures. George Crumb
Nobuo Uematsu quote: "I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past..."
I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years. Nobuo Uematsu
With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish. Vince Gill
I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike. Randy Travis
My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical. Michael Tippett

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